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Earlier this year, Secretary Moniz, former Secretary Moniz, came out with a statement that he was saying that we just don't have enough battery backup in the long term.

I was really struck by a really wise member of the U.S. House, Majority Whip Clyburn, who told me a story about his district.

You are the chairman of the most powerful committee in Congress. Your party is in control of the House. But then you went into the candy shop, and you left with a stick of gum.

To make sure that we understand, I don't think there's a person on this panel that I hear or in Congress that wants to see the mercury levels increase or cause problems.

These farmers are running out of time and it is up to Congress to act.

The Department of Defense needs to do the right thing here.

I think we have--let's--we need to slow this train down just a little bit, do a better analysis.

I think we better--you explain. Is there a way we can approach this from a global perspective?

We can take an action in America and deal with it, but until there is a global consciousness of this--and we are importing--we are still going to have this exposure to it.

I may be at odds with my party, but I am also, I am at odds with this whole issue trying to understand it as an engineer.

We need to contain the existing damage and fix the demonstrated problem before us.

I am not convinced the existing body of environmental law may be the best approach to the PFAS contamination conundrum and we should not be limited by that universe.

The test for me in addressing PFAS contamination is not the number of bills we pass or the creative ways we try to shoehorn solutions into existing statutes; rather, it is whether the response we provide can be reasonable, reliable, and…

A prolific number of small refinery exemptions issued has undermined the renewable fuels standards, caused significant demand destruction across the biofuel industries, and has hurt our farmers.

There is a significant concern in the biofuels community, which includes our corn and soybean farmers.

My home State of Iowa, as you know, leads the Nation in biofuels production.

I thank you, Chairman Rush, Ranking Member Upton, for holding this important hearing today.

The citizens of New York need to be engaged in this conversation as well about the cost of their energy.